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Obit for Nancy Elizabeth Strain Petruccione

Nancy Elizabeth Strain Petruccione

Nancy Elizabeth Strain Petruccione of Canyon died Sunday, May 26, 2002.

Memorial services will be at 4 p.m. today in First Presbyterian Church of
Canyon with Dr. Don McDonald, pastor, officiating. Brooks Funeral Directors.

Mrs. Petruccione was born in Lancaster to Horace and Mary Lee Strain. The
family moved to Canyon in 1927. She graduated from Canyon High School
and received a bachelor of science in education from West Texas State
Teachers College.

She taught grade school in Miami and spent several summers as a counselor for
Life Camp in Connecticut and New Jersey. She taught for Amarillo
Independent School District for eight years.

She did graduate studies in social work at UCLA before returning to Amarillo
where she was employed as a social worker by Texas Department of Human
Services until her retirement in 1975. After her retirement, she taught many local
children at her Town and Country Kindergarten in Canyon.

She married Pete Petruccione on Jan. 20, 1945, in Canyon. She was a member
of First Presbyterian Church of Canyon and served the church as a member of
the choir, a member and president of Presbyterian Women's Association, a
Sunday school teacher and superintendent, and was an elder.

She was a member of Panhandle Pen Women. Her writing reflected her interest
in and study of the history of the southwestern United States, particularly the
Texas Panhandle and Moreno Valley of New Mexico. Recent interests include
Santa Fe Trail Association and the Spanish Peaks area of Colorado.

Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Nancy Teague and husband, Gayle,
of Los Alamos, N.M.; a son, Nicholas Petruccione and wife, Julie, of Canyon;
two grandsons, Jonathan Teague and wife, Deanna, of Los Alamos and
Anthony Petruccione of Lubbock; a sister, Dorothy Stough of Citrus Grove,
Calif.; four nieces, Ann Nightingale of Ardmore, Okla., Marcia Massey of
Clayton, N.M., Wilda Lee Bell of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Carol Schwab
of Kendalia; and two cousins, Martha Strain Phillips of Everett, Wash., and
Charles Strain of Phoenix.

The family suggests memorials be to John Hyson School at Presbyterian
Mission, P.O. Box 189, Chimayo, NM 87522.

Amarillo Globe-News, May 28, 2002